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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
3
The piece offers outdoor picnic ideas including menus with ham burgers stuffed eggs and potato salad, plus step by step tips on packing, keeping foods hot, and safe hearth practices. It also includes several pickled beet and watermelon pickle recipes and ends with a column on economic issues and hotel price trends.
A playful exchange features an Englishman asking to be filled up again as a boy eats corn on the cob. Walter interjects with formal address while the crowd notes the rustic humor of the scene.
A former Squadron Leader E S Holmes of Edmonton offers aerial weed control for farms using a Lasander cabin plane. He sprays weeds with a specialized technique to cover fields efficiently, charging per acre while managing dust and application rates.
An absurd plan emerges in a tense office scene as the manager proposes a placard to be hung on a sleeping employee at her desk with the message When you have you'll sleep this way too indicating a coercive measure in a dispute over a worker.
A diary style update describes the wheat harvest progress with binders and tractors, noting earlier harvest trends and the seasonal rush. It reflects family labor tensions, visits by Joy and Betty, and travel tales from Hamilton, Quebec, and Toronto, ending with a wish to find a mare to travel while keeping chores for two hungry men.
Helena Montana CP reports a hunterly mink ranch wife shot a brown bear that tried to break into the mink pen. She said she wasn’t nervous at first but flinched when she saw the bear’s size.
Victoria Canada. Piper Wallace a 150 pound St Bernard served seven years as mascot for the Canadian Scottish regiment. He received official number medical sheet dog tag ration card and service ribbons including the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and the Battle of Britain decoration. His handler Staff Sergeant Wallace recalls his commands in Scots beyond the King's regulations.
A teacher reads about a man who swam a driver three times before breakfast and questions a trainee swimmer. Johnny giggles at the tale as the dialogue shifts to why the feat wasn’t four times and returning to the awle where his clothes were.
W A S Beatty of Makjaroff Manitoba has invented a grain cleaning machine named the blanket cleaner. It uses a rotating blanket to separate wild oats from crops with fine wires to remove oats, addressing limitations of sieve cleaners. The Dauphin Manitoba Federation of Agriculture backed the move to have a firm manufacture the device.
Notice to creditors of the estate of Matthew Job late of Nassagaweya Halton farmer who died about June 12 1946. Claims must be sent to the undersigned Solicitor on or before August 11. If not filed the estate will be distributed without regard to those claims. George F Elliott Milton Ontario Solicitor for the Executor Milton July 6 1946.
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